Dylan Burns on Sethian Gnosticism

Copticist and scholar Dylan Burns discusses Platonistic Sethian tractates and the movements behind them. Topics include the usage of the term 'Gnosticism' among scholars, the distinction between Sethian Gnosticism and the Sathians, neoplatonism language in the Sethian Corpus, the concept of penuma in Stoicism and early Christian literature, the omnipresence and providence of God according to the Sethians, and the complexity of the Gnostic myth.